We performed a comparison between FlexPod XCS and HPE SimpliVity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others in Converged Infrastructure."FlexPod is the primary solution we recommend for clients with high-availability server requirements. Our clients find FlexPod's management helpful. You can manage everything via plugins."
"FlexPod's native integration with hyperscalers is one of the reasons we chose to look at it and NetApp. That is one of the key components of our infrastructure. That native integration is very important."
"The flexibility, operational efficiency, and scalability of FlexPod has been a huge factor for us because our customers have workloads that need to run on classical HTTPs, flash storage, or possibly in the cloud. This flexibility and enhanced ability of the solution is very important for this. We trust in it."
"FlexPod’s prevalidated architectures are very important to our organization... Especially in healthcare, it is absolutely critical that we have a validated performance platform. It has to work every time."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its integrated convergence infrastructure, particularly the LAN and SAN cloud features that offer a unified fabric."
"We’ve seen an improvement in application performance."
"The main advantage is consolidating everything into a single rack, which helps optimize power consumption, especially in CRM."
"The solution's granular scalability and broad application support helps us to meet the needs of diverse workloads."
"PCX card implementation improves speed."
"The configuration capabilities are good."
"The solution is scalable."
"We can scale the solution easily."
"I like HPE SimpliVity's hard disk compression capabilities. The data is compressed into very little space or volume. I think that the principal value of HP SimpliVity is its capacity to compress the data, and I'm saving a lot of disk space using SimpliVity."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. The management is easy, and you don't have to have a lot of knowledge about storage, network, etc. It is simple to manage and simple to implement, and that's its key feature."
"It doesn't take long to mount the entire VM somewhere and then copy it. That's one of the things that I like about SimpliVity's deduplication and compression. I can literally stand up a backup in minutes. It is like no time at all. They've got pretty phenomenal deduplication and compression. Within SimpliVity, one of the things that they do is deduplication and compression on ingestion. So, on the front side, everything is deduplicated and compressed, which, of course, adds some overhead to their solution. For instance, in my environment today, I've got roughly 30 terabytes of raw storage, and with their deduplication and compression, I'm over the 300 terabyte threshold with my active servers and all my backups."
"SimpliVity's console is useful."
"FlexPod XCS' pricing could be cheaper. You need to find the right person for support."
"FlexPod XCS needs to improve its pricing."
"As the technology grows, we're looking to upgrade our storage systems to something faster, and we're hoping to improve our servers with next-generation technology. So we want to enhance our server infrastructure and explore server virtualization with VMware. That's the improvement that our clients are demanding."
"The integration between both companies, Cisco and NetApp, is very good but it still needs to be enhanced in terms of visibility and observability."
"They need to improve the user interface to make it easier to work in this environment. The older version is poor."
"FlexPod will do very well on the average app, but there's room for improvement in performance and the data center side."
"The solution could be improved by including automation for user updates."
"We would like one-click upgrades."
"Our customers are always looking or a discount on the product."
"The compatibility with other products needs an improvement."
"SimpliVity's data management could be better. Nutanix's interface is a bit more user-friendly."
"Once you select the size of SimpliVity, it could be risky for you to downsize it because you may need maybe to reimplement some things."
"Not a lean architecture in terms of anything."
"An area for improvement would be the flexibility of server configuration."
"Upgrading can be complicated."
"SimpliVity has no file server services. That's one of the solution's biggest shortcomings."
FlexPod XCS is ranked 2nd in Converged Infrastructure with 20 reviews while HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 26 reviews. FlexPod XCS is rated 8.6, while HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FlexPod XCS writes "Integrates everything so you are using fewer tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Phenomenal deduplication and compression, good support, and works on its own". FlexPod XCS is most compared with Dell PowerFlex, Oracle Exadata, VxRail and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Dell PowerFlex.
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